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The Accidental Tourist: A Novel

by Anne Tyler

ISBN13: 9780307416834
ISBN10: 0307416836
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Publisher Comments:

“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.”
–The New York Times

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world–and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.

“BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It’s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.”

–The Boston Globe

“Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.”

–Los Angeles Times

“A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.”

–The Wall Street Journal

Synopsis:

Follows the budding romance between a hapless writer of travel guides and an eccentric, spirited veterinarian.

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ISBN:: 9780307416834
Subtitle:: A Novel
Publisher:: Random House Publishing Group
Author:: Tyler, Anne
Author:: Anne Tyler
Subject:: Fiction : General
Subject:: General
Subject:: Children
Subject:: Death
Subject:: Men
Subject:: Travel writing
Subject:: Baltimore
Subject:: Psychological fiction
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Film and Television-Novelization
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Subject:: Foreign Languages-ESL
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 2002
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 329

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